Man sentenced to 10 years for robbery

Tippecanoe Superior 1 Judge Randy Williams sentenced Rodney Lloyd to 10 years at the Indiana Department of Corrections for an October 2014 robbery.

Williams gave Lloyd 6 months off the sentence for attaining a GED while at the Tippecanoe County Jail awaiting trial. Lloyd, 22, of Chicago, also was ordered to pay $240 in restitution to the victim.

A jury convicted Lloyd on July 22 of conspiracy to commit robbery with a deadly weapon, robbery with a deadly weapon, criminal confinement and theft.

On Oct. 19, 2014, a Purdue student who was lonely responded to an ad from Larrisa Catron on a dating site, according to the sentencing summary. When the student, who said he just wanted someone to talk to, showed up at the house in the 2000 block of Central Street, he paid Catron $100 to talk with her.

After receiving the money, Catron told the student to leave, but when the lonely man questioned why, three men, one of whom was Lloyd, entered the room and robbed him of other belongings while one person held a gun to his head, according to the sentencing summary.

Catron pleaded guilty in June and is awaiting sentencing. Another defendant in the case, Quenton Hansen, 19, has a trial set for Nov. 17, according to court documents.